Survivor Season 49 Episode 9: What happened during the rewards challenge?

Survivor Season 49 Episode 9
A still from Survivor Season 49 | Image Source: Instagram/ @survivorcbs

Survivor Season 49 Episode 9 aired on November 19, 2025. The latest episode, titled, If You're Loyal to All, You're Loyal to None featured the remaining nine participants.

For the latest rewards challenge, the show host announced a series of tasks. The team that would successfully complete all the tasks would win the reward. He also revealed the rewards that included fried chicken, French fries, desserts, and more.

Participants were divided into two teams. Sophie, Savannah, Alex, and Kristina from the Blue Team won the challenge.

CBS describes the latest Survivor Season 49 episode as:

"Stakes increase for this week's immunity challenge when two immunity necklaces are up for grabs; one player's not-so-hidden immunity idol comes into focus during this week's tribal council."

Survivor Season 49 Episode 9: Participants go through the rewards challenge against their opposing team

Fans witnessed the remaining nine participants featured on the latest episode. This included:

  • Kristina Mills,
  • Alex Moore,
  • Jawan Pitts,
  • Sage Ahrens-Nichols,
  • Savannah Louie,
  • Sophi Balerdi aka Soph,
  • Rizo Velovic,
  • Sophie Segreti, and
  • Steven Ramm.

They were divided into two teams of four for the latest rewards challenge. Survivor host revealed the challenge:

"On my go, you're gonna race to a very heavy metal cube. You will use it to retrieve the sandbag. You'll crawl under a net and then use that sandbag to knock off three rings on a very tall pole. Once you have those three rings, you will throw those same three things on that very same tall pole."

The first team to finish the challenge would win the reward. Soon, the show host also revealed the reward. It was fried chicken, French fries, soft drinks, lemonade, along with cheese cakes and more items. Survivor's Jawan noted that he was not going to think about the food, but about the task.

After Kristina and Rizo were chosen as the captains, they chose the rest of their teams. They were:

  • Team Blue: Kristina (Captain): Sophie, Alex, Savannah,
  • Team Yellow: Rizo (Captain): Sage, Steven, Jawan.

Soph was on the bench and decided to be with Rizo's team. Four participants on each team got started with the challenge.

The first task was to get the heavy metal cube structure untied from the chains. For that, they had to untie all the knots on various ropes surrounding the cube. Team Yellow was the first one to untie the knots. They started moving the structure.

Survivor star Rizo got on the cube after approaching the spot. For Team Blue, Alex got on top of the cube. Team Yellow was leading with Team Blue closely following. The next spot was going under the net. They had to throw the sandbag to get three rings hanging on the pole.

The rings were then supposed to be thrown on the pole. Team Blue was still trying to get the rings, while their opponents had already started to throw the rings on the pole. After Alex got all the rings on the pole, Team Blue won the challenge. Despite Team Yellow being the leading team, they lost the task.

Alex, Sophie, Savannah, and Kristina from Team Blue won the rewards challenge.


To know more about the rewards challenge, fans can stream Survivor Season 49 Episode 9 on Paramount+.

Edited by Gira Rathod